Chemistry Enhanced Podcasts, Imperial College London.

The conformation of cyclohexane and substituted cyclohexanes, including conformational locking. Trans-decalines, and anti-periplanar relationships, leading to steroids

The conformation of amides, cyclopropane, cyclubutanes, cyclopentanes and cyclohexanes.

The Gauche effect and its origins, dealing with heterosubstituted alkanes, alkenes, aldehydes, ketones and esters

A lecture covering the early history of and definitions in coformational analysis and introduction of the basic theoretical underpinnings of the topic.

Two case studies in modelling stereochemistry

Examples of sigmatropic rearrangements

Examples of cycloaddition reactions

Examples of electrocyclic reactions

The conversation of orbital symmetry and the aromaticity of pericyclic transition states

Mpolecular mechanics. The basic equations and case studies.

Introduction to pericyclic reactions, with examples of four principle categories, electrocyclic, cycloaddition, sigmatropic and end.

Molecular visualisation, including three case studies on herbicide hydrolysis, the Pirkle reagent and Nanobiotics.

A summary of various aspects of molecular modelling, including molecular scales, molecular coordinates, visualisation, structure analysis, structure and property prediction, and reactivity and potential energy surfaces.

Use of Autonom to name compounds and the CAmbridge Conquest system for 3D searches

A lecture covering Safety information, and property searches (13C, 1HN, IR, MS) and searches based on converting drawn chemical structures to SMILES strings.

A demonstration of the WOS bibliographic search, including export to EnNote, setting up a style and use with Word 2007.

A summary of how computers organise files, and how chemical journals arose and can be accessed from virtual libraries.

A short demonstration of the email and IT facilities at Imperial College, including access to course notes and other materials on the Blackboard VLE.

The reactivity of singly and doubly substituted benzenes, and of hetereoaromatics

The properties and reactivity of benzene